Crunch Confirm Campus Center Date

The Syracuse Crunch confirmed Wednesday that they will play an exhibition game in Oswego, NY on Oct. 3 at 7 p.m.. This marks the second consecutive year that the Crunch have played a pre-season contest at the Campus Center Ice Arena.

This season, SUNY Oswego welcomes the Binghamton Senators to town to face Syracuse. Last year, the Crunch defeated Rochester 5-3 in Oswego in their final pre-season contest prior to the 2007-08 regular season. Syracuse went on to qualify for the Calder Cup playoffs for the ninth time in the franchise's 14-year history.

From SyracuseCrunch.com:

Syracuse battles the Binghamton Senators in back-to-back games on Friday, October 3 at the Oswego State Campus Center Ice Arena and Saturday, October 4 at the Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena.

Tickets for the Crunch’s October 3 preseason game vs. Binghamton at the Oswego State Campus Center Ice Arena go on sale September 8 and can be purchased for $10 each at the Oswego State Box Office or by calling (315) 312-3073. The Oswego State Box Office is open Monday through Friday between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m.

Photo: Jim Commentucci / The Post-Standard

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Crunch Will Return to Oswego

The Syracuse Crunch will return to Oswego for the second year in a row according to The Post-Standard's Lindsey Kramer. The Crunch will face I-81 rival Binghamton in a pre-season exhibiton on Friday, Oct. 3 at the Campus Center Ice Arena.

Last year, the Crunch defeated Rochester 5-3 in Oswego in their final pre-season contest prior to the 2007-08 regular season. Syracuse went on to qualify for the Calder Cup playoffs for the ninth time in the franchise's 14-year history.

This season the Crunch face a Binghamton team that has been absent from the post-season for the past three seasons. No announcement has been made by SUNY Oswego concerning ticket sales. Last year, tickets were $10 general admission and went on sale about two weeks before the game.

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Roker in 1 Day

Today Show weatherman Al Roker is coming to Oswego State. The NBC personality and 1976 alum will host the Louis A. Borelli Media Summit Wednesday. The following day he will host his Today Show segments live on campus. This sort of stunt usually results in YouTube gold moments like this:

Romes N Malones Welcome Sarosy

Romes N Malones will welcome Syracuse Crunch Senior VP of Business Operations Jim Sarosy to the program Thursday. Sarosy has been a member of the Crunch oranization for 12 years. He will discuss Sunday's Crunch-Amerks game that will mark the first AHL game played in Oswego.


Game-time is set to for 5 PM, WNYO will have live play-by-play on 88.9 FM and streaming online. Listen to Romes N Malones Thursday afternoon at 2 for free tickets.

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From the Mind of Oompah

Ben Berrios is a former DJ and Executive Board member of WNYO. In a move that I am sure to reget later, I have allowed Ben to post on this blog without editing. Some people call this man functionally retarded. We here at WNYO call him...actually, come to think of it we're the ones who labeled him functionally retarded. More on Berrios later, here is his first post:

You know when you have a team like the Patriots and a coach like Belichick (who was a guaranteed lock for the Hall, which he might be) is all besides the point let me say this as loud as possible, YOU CHEATED….YOUR COMPLETE AND UTTER GUTTER TRASH and in lame man terms YOU’RE GARBAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In other exciting news in sports, according to an article posted on Yahoo Sports website the Patriots are ranked as the number one NFL team. I mean is this stupid they should have forfeited the game to Mangini and the JETS I mean clearly I know Chad and his shoulder were a little uncooperative but it wasn’t like the game wasn’t close. I mean THEY CHEATED WTF WAS THE COMMISH THINKING I MEAN OMG THEY CHEATED…..VIDEO TAPED OBVIOUSLY VERY CLEAR EVIDENCE DO YOU NEED 3D GOGGLES TO SEE THAT ARE YOU DRUNK I MEAN EVEN A MAN WITH A CLEAR VISION EVEN HE WAS DRUNK COULD SEE THERE WAS A CAMERA ON THE SIDELINE AND THEY CHEATED I DON’T CARE WHAT ANYBODY SAYS THEY CHEATED!!!!!!!!!!!! END OF STORY THEY CHEATED THAT IS COMPLETE AND UTTER GUTTER TRASH, GARBAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ben Berrios

Upon reading this, I feel as though I may have mislabeled Ben when I called him functionally retarded. During his time away from Oswego State his condition has clearly worsened, and he is now ginormously retarded. WNYO staffers are hard at work trying to de-code this post and will provide a translation as soon as possible. If you're asking yourself, "who is this man/thing?" read this.

AHL Coming to Oswego State

Lindsay Kramer has confirmed that the Campus Center at SUNY Oswego will host an AHL exhibition game. The Syracuse Crunch and Rochester Americans will meet at the home of the 2007 NCAA Champions on Sept. 30. Game time and ticket information has yet to be released.